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troels on Aug 12, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore

> ... drawing a distinction between the two in clear-cut cases (such as HTML versus C).

If anything, declarative languages (or markup languages if you prefer) are a sub-category of programming languages. Imperative languages are another sub-category.

scott_s on Aug 12, 2009 [–]

To me, a "programming language" is a language that allows me to express computations. Markup don't need any concept of computation, so I don't consider them programming languages.

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